On 11/10/09 8:33 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > This should be a bit more exact as to how the mediaType is returned. I > would prefer ASCII-lowercase. Returning "application/octet-stream" > rather than null also seems better if the type is not known. That way > you do not have to type check. Other parts of the platform also handle > "application/octet-stream" as unknown. That's not necessarily true. Most simply, loading a url in a browser doesn't treat application/octet-stream the same way it treats a missing Content-Type header. > Also, maybe we should just call this type? File.type seems unambiguous > enough. It seems that many people think of "JPG" or "PNG" or "HTML" etc as the "file type". Witness all the dialog in various software that talk about "PNG files" and such. -BorisReceived on Tuesday, 10 November 2009 16:54:22 GMT
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